Definitions
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- noun Ancient Greece The
unification of towns, tribes etc. under onecapital city orpolis .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek συνοικισμός, from συνοικίζειν ("to make live with, to unite under one city"), from σύν ("syn-") + οἰκίζειν ("to colonise").
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Examples
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Athens gradually unified Attica by conquest and by synoecism, the process of merging with smaller towns.
d. Athens 2001
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Cimon secured the OSTRACISM OF THEMISTOCLES, who fled to Argos and conducted anti-Spartan activity in the Peloponnese, possibly inspiring the synoecism which united Elis.
478-477 2001
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